Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

The Morgan Library explores the life and work of legendary author Beatrix Potter

Art Daily Newsletter

Beatrix Potter,
Illustration from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, London and New York: Frederick
Warne and Co., 1904. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. 87742. Gift
of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.

NEW YORK, NY.- The Tale of Peter Rabbit and other books by Beatrix
Potter (1866–1943) have become classics of children’s literature and
represent one of the most successful publishing enterprises in the history of
the British book trade. Yet Peter Rabbit began not as a commercial publishing
venture, but as a story created to entertain the child of a family friend—all
told in an eight-page letter illustrated with pen-drawn vignettes. The Morgan Library & Museum explores the
extraordinary tale of how a largely self-taught artist and writer used a
series of private letters to develop some of the most vividly depicted animal
characters in all of children’s literature—in the process creating a wholly
original artistic and literary style. On view until January 27, 2013, Beatrix
Potter: The Picture Letters brings together for the first time twenty ... More